Astronomy needs expensive things, and lots of them. You might remember that astronomers almost literally turned the Earth into a telescope just to see a black hole, by combining lots of existing radio telescope dishes. Read more…
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An Old Satellite Dish Found on Google Maps Is Becoming West Africa’s First Radio Telescope
Astronomy needs expensive things, and lots of them. You might remember that astronomers almost literally turned the Earth into a telescope just to see a black hole, by combining lots of existing radio telescope dishes. Read more…
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An Old Satellite Dish Found on Google Maps Is Becoming West Africa’s First Radio Telescope
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An Old Satellite Dish Found on Google Maps Is Becoming West Africa’s First Radio Telescope
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CanadianRealist writes: Larger babies delivered by cesarean section may be affecting human evolution. Researchers estimate cases where the baby cannot fit down the birth canal have increased from 30 in 1, 000 in the 1960s to 36 in 1, 000 births today, [according to estimates from researchers at the University of Vienna in Austria.] Science Alert reports: “In the past, larger babies and mothers with narrow pelvis sizes might both have died in labour. Thanks to C-sections, that’s now a lot less likely, but it also means that those ‘at risk’ genes from mothers with narrow pelvises are being carried into future generations. More detailed studies would be required to actually confirm the link between C-sections and evolution, as all we have now is a hypothesis based on the birth data.” Agreed, more studies required part. Cesareans may simply be becoming more common with “too large” defined as cesarean seems like a better idea. It’s reasonable to pose the question based simply on an understanding of evolution. Like it’s reasonable to conjecture that length of human pregnancy is a compromise between further development in utero, and chance of mother and baby surviving the delivery. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says
The British pound suffered a “flash crash” earlier this morning in which it plummeted six percent against the US dollar within a matter of minutes. All signs point to high frequency stock trading as the culprit—and possibly a single algorithm. Read more…
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‘Rogue’ Algorithm Blamed for Historic Crash of the British Pound
We tend to think of coral reefs as luminous, undersea jungles that pepper the shallow, scuba-friendly tropics. But deeper down, in a region about as bright as Pluto on a sunny day , there lie vast reef ecosystems unknown to science. Read more…
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Now that tattoos are mainstream and piercings passé, America’s youth have taken to some extreme measures to make a statement. And for Lucy Luckayanko of New York City, that statement comes in the form of a permanent, platinum twinkle implanted smack-dab onto her eyeball. Read more…
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Woman Has Heart-Shaped Twinkle Surgically Implanted on Her Eyeball